Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mercury's Surface in Exaggerated Color . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JHU APL / CIW Explanation: The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft recently completed over 100 orbits of Mercury . ... Otherwise, to the unaided human eye, Mercury's surface colors would appear comparatively muted . ... Publications with keywords: Mercury - Mercury program - Mercury surface - Messenger - color . Publications with words: Mercury - Mercury program - Mercury surface - Messenger - color . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 June 12 . All of Mercury . Image Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. ... Explanation: For the first time, the entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped. ... The above video is a compilation of thousands of images of Mercury rendered in exaggerated colors to better contrast different surface features. ...

Educator's Guide to Impact Craters . ... Just about all craters have deep central depressions, raised rims, and a blanket of ejected material surrounding them. ... Look for classical cratering features: basin, raised rim, ejecta blanket (material excavated from the crater and dumped around it, visible as white flour on the colored powder), and rays (material shot out at high velocity forming lines pointing directly away from the impact site). ... The material lies like a blanket around the crater. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Mercury Magazine . ... White Mars: The Story of the Red Planet Without Water . ... Mars today is a dry planet, with an atmospheric pressure far too low to sustain liquid water on the surface. ... Hoffman describes his White Mars theory, and the reasons why the warm and wet model doesn't hold water. In Hoffman's view, Mars is a planet dominated by carbon dioxide, not water. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... M ercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. ... Heraclitus even believed that Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun, not the Earth. ... The perihelion of its orbit precesses around the Sun at a very slow rate. 19th century astronomers made very careful observations of Mercury's orbital parameters but could not adequately explain them using Newtonian mechanics. ... Actually Earth's density is due in part to gravitational compression; if not for this, Mercury would be denser than Earth...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows the surface of the distant dwarf planet Makemake. This dwarf planet is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of Pluto, but closer to the Sun than Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System. ...

... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....

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Electronic PictureBooks are part of an expanding library of multimedia publications that highlight the results of contemporary astronomy and planetary science research, particularly images. ... All of the Electronic PictureBooks are available free right here on this site! ... If you want to get a sample of some of the Electronic PictureBooks before downloading them, try downloading the Electronic PictureBook Sampler , an interactive collection of sample pages from most of our Electronic PictureBooks! ...

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia . ... 50_Kozlova_Shevchenko.pdf - 212KB . A.A. Berezhnoy (1), O.R. Baransky (2), K.I. Churyumov (2), V.V. Kleshchenok (2), E.A. Kozlova (1), V. Mangano (3), V.O. Ponomarenko (2), Yu.V. Pakhomov (4), V.V. Shevchenko (1), yu. ... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. в сборнике 36th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, серия Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts, том 36, с. 1061 тезисы . ...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

... OOF . ... OOF Index . ... OOF software . ... Fits up to fifth order . ... These are experimental data currently being analysed, not final documentation of research. ... Only fitting for Zernike orders up to and including 3rd to concentrate on finding possible off-axis aberrations. ... The results below show that when fitting for all Zernikes up to and including fifth order, the output maps vary greatly between pixels. As above, but fitting up to fifth order Zernike polynomial. ...

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... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Un impact record vu en direct sur la Lune . ... Comment d†йtecter des flashs sur la Lune ? ... 30/03/2016 - La chute dтАЩun corps c†йleste sur Jupiter vue en direct . ...

... Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . Go directly to the surface features of Earth's Moon and Mars . Planet & Moons . Pronunciation . ... Mercury . ... Mars: . 2 moons . ... Jupiter: . ... Neptune: . ... 1 moon . ...